Oxhide II (Niu Pi II)

The China Institute in America will showcase Liu Jiayin's film, "Oxhide II."

A continuation of the director’s 2004 work, Oxhide, the second installment in this series Oxhide II, follows the lives of her father, mother, and herself in their small Beijing apartment. The family’s dinner table, which serves a multitude of functions (including the father’s leather-making station), is the main subject of the film as it is converted into a surface for dumpling making. Liu uses up-close, tight shots to focus the viewer’s attention on the main action taking place whatever it may be, and making the often seemingly ordinary parts of life the central theme in her style of filmmaking. The director invites the viewer into her home to see that, “daily routines are interesting in themselves… every day, every moment is equal in its importance…” (Liu Jiayin interviewed by Christen Cornell, Artspace, University of Sydney).

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